Graphic Cards NVIDIA GT200 : GeForce 9900 GTX & 9900 GT In Q3

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No it is not some April Fool jokes. VR-Zone has learned that there will be two high end parts from Nvidia to replace the current GeForce 9800 GX2 and 9800 GTX in Q3. These two parts are GeForce 9900 GTX and GeForce 9900 GT based on the new GT200 architecture. GeForce 9800 GX2 and GTX will have a short lifespan since they will be replaced in a couple of months time. Nvidia has positioned GeForce 9900 GTX to replace 9800 GX2 and this gave a clue that a single GT200 card will actually outperform a dual G92 card. Likewise for GeForce 9900 GT, outperforming and replacing 9800 GTX. CJ revealed to us that Nvidia will have a hard time fitting GT200 onto the PCB since the GPU is gonna be large and very power hungry so we can probably assume it is still 65nm based. The PCB for GT200 will be P651.

Link-->VR-Zone : Technology Beats - NVIDIA GT200 : GeForce 9900 GTX & 9900 GT In Q3
 
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judging by the specs...the 9800GTX is not much different from the 8800GTS...looks same too....why did Nvidia release the 8800GT and 8800GTS

...they should have just released:

the 8800GT with the 9600GT tag

the 8800GTS with the 9800GTX tag ...and

the current 9600GT with the 9500GT tag.
 
btw, the 9800GTX just released guyz ...

here is the xfx one

Some days you need full power, and some days you don’t. Thankfully, the new XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800 GTX manages gamers’ unique performance needs with exceptional power management.

Featuring HybridPowerâ„¢ technology, the 9800 GTX manages expectations in a way unheard of in previous cards, allowing users with a HybridPowerâ„¢ compatible motherboard to power down their GeForce 9800 GTX graphics card when running less graphically intense applications. The result: a silent, low power PC experience.

The 9800 GTX is the most powerful single chipset GeForce card available today, delivering all-out gaming performance at extreme HD resolutions. Triple the smack down power by running three 9800 GTX graphics cards in 3-way SLI® mode on one of the new XFX nForce® 780i SLI or 790i Ultra SLI motherboards for a ramp up of to 2.8 times the performance of a single GPU. Call it XXX GTX gaming, if you will.

Designed for PCI Express 2.0 featured in nForce 7 series motherboards, the 9800 GTX offers the highest data transfer speeds, enabling it to accommodate today’s bandwidth hungry games and 3D applications. Hardware Decode Acceleration provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV and MPEG-2 HD and SD movies. Dual-stream Hardware Acceleration supports picture-in-picture content and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement & Color Stretch ensures post-processing and optimization of High Definition movies on scene-by-scene basis with spectacular picture quality. HDMI™ capability allows users to send both high-definition video and audio signals to their HDTVs via a single cable.

Best of all, XFX’s GeForce® 9800 GTX graphics cards come with XFX’s LiveHelp support. To learn more about the XFX NVIDIA GeForce® 9800 GTX graphics card, or to locate a participating e-tailer, go to XFXforce Graphics Cards | Computer Gaming Hardware Graphics Cards | nVidia graphic card | nVidia Graphics Cards | Welcome to XFXforce gamers graphic hardware community : home.
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VR-Zone : Technology Beats - XFX Unveiled GeForce 9800 GTX
 
methinks ....currently ati ROX !!! ...nobody needs the 9800GX2 at the moment...by the time the drivers are tuned ...it will be GT200 time.......so any1 wanting to buy a new card get the evga 9800GTX..and upgrade to the 9900GTX..or just get a HD 3870X2...and then get the GT200
 
I dont see 9800 series being a major upgrade from 8800 series. people having 8800 should wait till the next big upgrade, like 8800 from 7800
 
abhisheksahas said:
judging by the specs...the 9800GTX is not much different from the 8800GTS...looks same too....why did Nvidia release the 8800GT and 8800GTS

...they should have just released:
the 8800GT with the 9600GT tag
the 8800GTS with the 9800GTX tag ...and
the current 9600GT with the 9500GT tag.
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Actually that was the intended plan, however, there were two reasons why NVIDIA had to rush out the GeForce 8800 GT and basically screw up their entire lineup:

1) They expected RV670 (Radeon HD 38xx) to be vastly inferior to the R600 (HD 2900). They found out fairly quickly that RV670 was actually better than the R600, but the second shock was when RV670 was ready much before its expected launch date (it seems it was expected to launch on January, instead production silicon revision A11 was obtained sometime in September or October. Usually ATI chips' production revision is A12 so it was a pleasant surprise that A11 worked out just fine.). When NVIDIA found this out, they had to release the G92 which was the intended GeForce 9600 GTS (or maybe GT?). In fact, rumours go around that NVIDIA was so afraid of the RV670 that they conducted an analysis of reviewers' benchmark rigs and found out the maximum clocks with which they'd run at a low temperature and basically OCed the 8800 GT so that it would be prepared for the Radeons when they came out.

ATI, on the other hand, had quite a bit of headroom for OC on the Radeon HD cards (rumours go that the speed could have gone up to 830MHz on the core and 2400MHz (1200*2) memory without much problems). But they decided that it was not worth it and played the price-performance game instead. The Radeon HD 3870 also had a little bug with the DDR4 memory which caused odd FPS drops when the memory was OCed (probably a memory controller bug).

2) NVIDIA wanted to release the G92 core without hurting the sales of their existing 8-series chips, which NVIDIA had quite a lot of stock of. Therefore NVIDIA had to be diplomatic and released this core as the 8800 GT, thus killing the old GTS line and beginning the problems with its lineup.

Now why are the new G94 and G92 based chips being called as GeForce 9xxx? Because ATI had done a similar thing, Radeon HD 3870 offers similar (and slightly better in most cases) performance to the HD 2900 XT. Naming these products as GeForce 8900 and the like would cause problems with clueless people thinking that these were still part of the "old" lineup and hence from an "old" generation. So it was a matter of timing that caused this confusion.

So yeah, in the end competition forced NVIDIA to come up with a wonderful product (the 8800 GT).

After reading the current article, I am wondering what is going to happen in the coming months. By the end of Q2 the Radeon 4000 series will be released, Radeon 4870 is expected to offer more than twice the performance of the 3870 and there is even an X2 version coming. GeForce 9900 coming in Q3 might be too late to the market, and then it might not really outperform the 4870 this time around, because this time the 4000 series finally increased the texture mapping units, which was the biggest limiting factor of performance for the 3xxx series along with AA. This time NVIDIA might not win, but it probably won't lose either as with AA performance should reach parity between the two companies' solutions.
 
abhisheksahas said:
methinks ....currently ati ROX !!! ...nobody needs the 9800GX2 at the moment...by the time the drivers are tuned ...it will be GT200 time.......so any1 wanting to buy a new card get the evga 9800GTX..and upgrade to the 9900GTX..or just get a HD 3870X2...and then get the GT200
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Says who? Just check benchies on the 3870 x2 and you'll realise its not that fast or special for that matter...
 
^^ +1 on that :)

Come on lets face it... I dont think those who want best will think let me wait 2 months and get XXXX after sometime. Today 9800GX2 is good, it clocks well on air too and manages to keep 3870X2 down in most of the games ;)

As for GT-200.. from what I have been reading NV has managed to get a beast packed in under 600mm2 of die :P
 
Vandal said:
Says who? Just check benchies on the 3870 x2 and you'll realise its not that fast or special for that matter...
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I think he wanted to say that on a price/performance ratio. (I know 8800GT is even better in that but we want 2 cores ;) )

Darth_Infernus said:
After reading the current article, I am wondering what is going to happen in the coming months. By the end of Q2 the Radeon 4000 series will be released, Radeon 4870 is expected to offer more than twice the performance of the 3870 and there is even an X2 version coming. GeForce 9900 coming in Q3 might be too late to the market, and then it might not really outperform the 4870 this time around, because this time the 4000 series finally increased the texture mapping units, which was the biggest limiting factor of performance for the 3xxx series along with AA. This time NVIDIA might not win, but it probably won't lose either as with AA performance should reach parity between the two companies' solutions.
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Nice post mate. Yeah its expected the 4-series would repeat the performance of the X1xxx series again specially as AA is back on hardware again . And if its really priced the way as shown by rumour posts ($350 for RV770XT) I am sure ATi has struck gold with this chip
 
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